Tattoo Custom Recovery Image

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I'm starting this thread to document the work on creating a custom recovery image for the Tattoo.

The main goal is to provide a recovery image that will serve as the launchpad for flashing custom roms.

The Tattoo Custom Recovery Image will provide:
1) A way to use an update.zip signed with test-keys (already accomplished);
2) A way to perform a full backup of mtd2,mtd3,mtd4 and mtd5 (boot,system,cache and data).
3) A way to perform a full restore of the backup achieved by 2);
4) Adb support (already accomplished);
4.1) Adb shell support.



I'm open to input about using nandroid. Right now, without a S-OFF/ENG SPL this looks useless.
Also, if you have any other special need for recovery, please feel free to express it

Alpha release

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Tattoo's Custom Recovery Image, Alpha Release

This first release includes:
- ADB enabled recovery
- ADB enabled root shell
- Accept update.zip signed with test keys
- All partitions mounted
- Custom recovery program (the last two options are stubs, not really working yet)
- Included in /sbin: busybox, flash_image and BART
- I've not used BART and, at the moment, cannot attest if it works or not.
- Backup script in /sbin/backup.sh
- Restore script in /sbin/restore.sh

With this custom recovery you can now do a full backup of your unit, by dumping the mtd block devices to your sdcard. Afterwards, you can use flash_image to recover your Tattoo to it's previous state.

I'm releasing this image as is. This is not a point-and-click recovery tool. If you don't know what you're doing, you can seriously damage your unit. The only reason I'm releasing this is in an effort to provide other devs with a way to easily recover their units, back to day-to-day configuration, while experimenting with them.

To flash:
Copy TCRI.alpha.img to /sdcard.
Run "flash_image recovery /sdcard/TCRI.alpha.img"

To reboot into recovery (quickest way)
adb reboot recovery

Please comment

thanks for you work

i try to flahs and get permission denied, do you know why?

flash_image: permission denied

Originally Posted by chusen

i try to flahs and get permission denied, do you know why?

Partition remounted writeable from a fresh rebooted system with the tattoo-hack.ko module inserted??

But I'm sure you did that before because of:

I'm releasing this image as is. This is not a point-and-click recovery tool. If you don't know what you're doing...

;)
-bm-

Thank you very much for your excellent job

Someone could install custom alpha recovery?
thx

@-bm-:yes I will try that way since the beginning. i mount with rw permissions /system and /data. i know is not a point-and-click recovery tool but i think i need more permissions but where?

Where did you guys get your flash_image binary from ?

The error you're getting is from flash_image, not from my recovery image.
I'll attach the flash_image I've been using to this post.

Please tell me if this solves your problem. You need tattoo-hack.ko module inserted, if you're using a release kernel.

Edit: You have the correct permissions in your flash_image binary, right ? After pushing it to the device, don't forget to chmod 755